Zippping a directory recursively from Python script on Windows

did you look at the module zipfile? This seems to be able to everything 
you describe?

regards Gerrit

> I guess that the best approach is calling a shell tool with something > like os.popen(). But I cannot seem to find any free tools.> > Winzip has a command line option, but for registered users only. That is > bothersome if I want to install the script on other machines.> > The same for pkwares zip. At least I cannot seem to find a free version > of it.> > gzip seems able to do the trick, but I need to install Cygwin, that's > also a bother ;-)> > Can it really be that there is no free .zip command line tool for > Windows, or are my Googling skills just to poor?> > Ideally it should just be a single .exe file that I can put in the > folder with my script, for easy distribution.> > Or is there a more Pythonic approach?> > > regards Max M


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